Skirt and waist holder.



SKIRT AND WAIST HOLDER.

(Application mea ont. 1e, 189s.) (No Model.)

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ALMA A. POOL, OF WAUKESHA, VVISOONSIN.

SKIRT AND WAIST HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 631,380, dated August22, 1899.

Application tiled October 19, 1898. Serial No. 694,029. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, ALMA A. POOL, of Vtaukesha, in the county ofWaukesha and State of Wisconsin, have invented a new and u sefulImprovement in Skirt and Waist Holders, of which the following is adescription, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which area part of this specification.

The object of my invention is to provide improved means especiallyadapted, being releasably attached to a corset, for supporting a skirtand incidentally holding it against moving around laterally and also forsecurin g and thereby holding the lower edge of a waist. in properposition.

The invention consists of the device, its parts and combinations ofparts, as hereinafter described and claimed, or their equivalents.

In the drawings, Figure 1 shows my'improved device in connection withsuch clothing ordinarily worn by ladies as is necessary to illustratethe method of use of my improved device. Fig. 2 is a perspective view ofmy improved device. Fig. 3 is a transverse section of my improved devicein connection with fragments of clothing, also in section illustratingthe use of the device: Fig. 4C is a detail of an eye employed in mydevice.

In the drawings, 6 is a belt of flexible material, preferably ofnon-elastic webbing, provided at one extremity with a buckle 7, adaptedto receive andl releasably and adjustably secure the other extremity ofthe belt.

8 8 are two suspension-straps, also preferably of non-elastic webbingand conveniently of the same character of webbing as the belt 6. Thesestraps 8 8 are located at a little distance apart, and each strap issecured at its lower extremity to the belt 6 by means of a button-stud9, the neck of which stud passes through the belt 6 and the strap S,connecting them together, and the base of the stud is secured in placeon the under side of the belt 6 conveniently by carrying the lower endsof the straps 8 around over the base of the stud on the inner side ofthe belt and sewing the straps and belt together. This construction isshown in Fig. 3; but the method of securing the stud to the strap 8 andthe belt 6 is not essential. The studs are so secured to these strapsand the belt that their heads project therefrom a sufficient distance torebuckles 10.

ceive an eye over the head about the neck.

The straps 8 are each provided with a buckle 10, adjustable up and downthereon, the buckles being each provided with a hook 11. A wire eye 12,preferably made in the form shown in Fig. 4, consists of a body parthaving a laterally-elongated slot and a loop 13 extending at a rightangle to the slot at one side thereof. Two of these eyes or fastenersare secured to the under surface of a skirt 14 near the top Waist edgeof the skirt and near the slit or opening therein at the back.

In use the belt of my improved device is placed about a personat thewaist and secured thereto by the buckle 7, and thereupon the hooks 11are caught into eyelets in the corset 15, and the vertical Iheight ofthe belt is adjusted by means of thestraps 8 in the placed about theperson, the eyes 12 are brought up to the stud-buttons 9 and the loops13 are hooked on the stud-buttons. In this manner the skirt is securedin place and is held against settling down or lateral movement. If theperson desires also to secure the lower edge of a waist 16 againstmovement upwardly or otherwise getting out of place, the lower edge ofthe waist is drawn down over the stud-buttons 9, and the eyes 12 arethen brought up and looped over the studs, the material of the waistcovering the heads of the studs and being encompassed and held in placedby the loops 13 bearing against the waist material about the necks ofthe studs.

What I claim as my invention is* A skirt and Waist holder, comprisingabelt having means for securing its ends releasably to each other, aplurality of short suspension.- straps fastened at their lower ends at adistance apart to the belt approximately at its middle portion, hooksadjustable on the straps for securing them releasably and adjustably toa corset or analogous support, and studs securing the belt tothe strapsat their junctions with the belt and projecting therefrom forming. meansfor attachingclothing thereto.

In-testimon y whereof1 l affix my signature vin presence of twowitnesses. ALMA A. POOL.

Witnesses:

WM. H. HARDY, .l r., IRA PooL.

Thereupon, the skirt 14 being IOO

